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What lossy audio formats are more (or less) “efficient”? [closed]

This question is related to the answers I got to this question. The bitrate-efficient format (see the question's most voted answers and their comments thereunder) would be one that assures a good ...
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What does the “cutoff” option do in FFmpeg?

I am encoding some FLAC files into AAC and I came across the -cutoff option. I do not see this option in the documentation, however I did find it in the help $ ffmpeg -v warning -h full | grep ...
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Converting MP3 to AAC and outputting to stdout

ffmpeg.exe -i s.mp3 -f aac - This is the command I run but it doesn't recognize the format AAC. Requested output format 'aac' is not a suitable output format pipe:: Invalid argument However when ...
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How to determine AAC bit depth

With a wav file for example you can easily distinguish between bit depths 24-bit Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s24le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 44100 Hz, stereo, s32, 2116 kb/s 16-bit ...
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AAC converted from MP3 (FFmpeg) results in bigger size

I'm on Windows x64 converting MP3 file to AAC using FFmpeg. I tried these commands: ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -acodec aac -strict -2 file.aac ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -c:a libvo_aacenc file.aac Both commands ...
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Failed to convert a wmv file to mp4 with ffmpeg

i need a help with this command FFMPEG COMMAND: ffmpeg -y -i /input.wmv -vcodec libx264 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -bufsize 20M -sameq -f mp4 /output.mp4 Output: ffmpeg version 1.0 Copyright (c) ...
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Convert MKV with DTS sound to MP4 video with AAC or AC3 audio

I've got a 4.3 GB 720p movie and want to convert this MKV with DTS sound to MP4 video with AAC or AC3 audio. I sometimes got "ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-c:v'" and "aac unrecognized" and other ...
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HLS video segmenting complications. How to create a transport stream with ffmpeg

I have h264 videos, and currently we're using Apple's HTTP Video Streaming tools and mediafilesegmenter to segment these files. What I need to do is to switch to alternative segmenter based on this ...
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Undefined reference to _aacplusEncOpen

Following is the copy of my config.log file-> http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=UyTBTTZv Following is copy of configure file-> http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=2c15zppN Additionally: As of now ...
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FFmpeg command to convert MP3 to AAC

I can issue this command: ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -acodec alac -ab 128k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -y output.m4a to create a m4a file. But when I issue this command ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -acodec alac -ab 128k ...
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Time of splitting and encoding video with ffmpeg increases exponentially

I'm trying to split a video by subtitles and encode into .mp4(h.264/aac) using ffmpeg, but it takes so much time! First pieces of video are splited and encoded really fast, but for each iteration time ...
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Small pieces of video split by ffmpeg are not playing or playing with artifacts

I'm trying to cut a video file into small parts (0.5-5s) and encode these parts to h.264/aac with ffmpeg. I'm using this command: ffmpeg -i 1.avi -ss 00:05:00 -t 00:00:01,50 -vcodec libx264 -threads ...
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How to use ffmpeg to add metadata to an AAC file without reencoding?

I'm using ffmpeg to extract just the audio stream from a video file: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec copy audio.aac This produces a clean audio file but without any metadata. To add metadata, ...
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354 views

FFMPEG: how to add watermark to video?

My Platform: Ubuntu 10.10 + FFMPEG 0.5.3(I installed ffmpeg from source) I try to add Watermark to a .MOV video with FFMPEG 0.5.3 imlib2.so (Please note FFMPEG 0.6+ dont support imlib2.so, so I use ...
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FFMPEG: AC3 to AAC conversion issues

Ok, this one has me scratching my head - and being a n00b isn't helping. In short, I had a script which I had perfected to covert MKV video to MP4. However, my Ubuntu 10.10 box bit the dust and ...
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How to convert a mpeg4-aac video to mpeg-ts using MEncoder?

I know this can be done using FFMpeg and I have done it. The only problem here was that FFMpeg actually tries to "encode" the file while converting to mpeg-ts which I don't want. i.e. I just want to ...